EXCLUSIVE: WONDER WOMAN 2 Villain Revealed

While much of Warner Bros. DC film slate seems to be in flux, one project stands on extraordinarily firm ground: the sequel to 2017’s Wonder Woman, the most well-received of Warner Bros. recent DC flicks. The original film took in nearly $822M worldwide on a $149M budget, making it a very profitable film and pushing a sequel to the top of Warner Bros. to do list.

With production slated to begin in the UK in late May (we were given a tentative start date of May 28th), it should come as no surprise that the studio is preparing to cast. We are told that Chris Pine, Ewen Bremner and Said Taghmaoiu are all set to return alongside the film’s star, Gal Gadot, and that Warner Bros. has now turned its attention to the film’s main antagonist: Cheetah!

The film is said to follow Diana Prince into the 1980s where she will (somehow) reunite with Steve Trevor to take on the now dissolved Soviet Union. According to our source, somewhere in that mix will be the classic DC comics’ villainess Cheetah. You won’t have to dig too deeply into Google to discover that Cheetah sits atop the most wanted list of a large percentage of DC fans, but this is no fan fiction. With just 3 months until filming and with the polished script from Geoff Johns and Dave Callaham in hand, Warner Bros. is on the prowl for their Cheetah and though it’s by no means a done deal at this point, we are told the studio was eyeing actress Emma Stone for the role, but we recently confirmed that she has passed on the role.

Comic book fans will probably know that the mantle of Cheetah has been held by more than one villain over the years and, thanks to our source, we can shed some light on which iteration to expect in the film. Wonder Woman 2 is set to feature Barbara Ann Minerva, a British anthropologist who becomes the avatar of the cheetah god after locating the lost city of Urzkartagan and stumbling into the middle of an ancient ritual. The third of four characters to carry the mantle of Cheetah, Minerva first appeared in 1987 in Len Wein’s post-Crisis Wonder Woman, Vol. 2, #7 and, after a brief hiatus, reclaimed the title in 2011 when DC launched the New 52.

It will be interesting to see how WB/DC chooses to bring Cheetah to life on screen and, with so much history behind the character, if they decide to go with an amalgamation of the four different versions of the character or if they fully adopt the New 52 version. With filming just a few months away, we should have some confirmation on this news soon but, in the meantime, keep checking in with That Hashtag Show for news you aren’t getting anywhere else!

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SashaqueenieFebruary 27, 2018

“Minerva first appeared in 1987 in Len Wein’s post-Crisis Wonder Woman, Vol. 2, #7 ”
I would argue that the creation of Barbra Minerva rests solely on the artistic genius of George Perez, the artistic genius and talented writed of the Wonder Woman reboot after Crisis of Infinite Earths. A series which George Perez had more than a hand in creating. Len Wein did not write the series until issue #3 wheras George Perez was there at the helm from the very beginning of the reboot.

Well, I think You shouldn’t have killed off Steve Trevor in the first film if you were planning on bringing him back. 2. Emma Stone as Cheetah no way. She always plays girl next door types. You should try Lupita Nyongo. Or maybe a gay actor. Get Angelina Jolie for this, she can be evil too.

Read director, Patty Jenkins words about how ‘none of the WW adventures will be continuous, or connected to any other DCEU movies.’
Makes sense after the JL Joss Whedon fiasco.
Director, PJ:
‘To some it’s a sequel but not to us, we take the good things from the solo add use it and bring in other new ideas.’
Plus WW is coming to America, so we can simply see Etta Candy, Sameer, Charlie, Stevie-pooh and hopefully Chiefy-poo as Apache Chief.

We don’t know if Cheetah is the only villain either.
Let’s research the Cold War, to see if it involved harming animal life, environmental safety…
We must remember how terribly incorrect ppl were with their WW solo info clairvoyance turrible, just turrible!

George Perez revamped the Cheetah and essentially created Barbara Minerva. He was the mastermind behind post-Crisis WW, revamping the whole lore and plotting out WW Vol. 2 #1-62 plus the annuals and War of the Gods.

Len Wein, while great, only scripted #3-16, and even then it was Perez who plotted and laid everything out therein – including the reintroduction of the Cheetah – as Barbara in #7 and as the Cheetah in #9.

Kristen is in talks she could decline, like Emma.
Besides the Cheetah May be a stunt woman in a suit while Kristin does a Katharine Hepburn/Minerva Voice over.
The best idea is to wait for more amplifying information, WW2 doesn’t start filming until summer 2018 for a November 2019 release.
Let’s get excited about Aquaman and SHAZAM!

– I do believe Director, Patty Jenkins has an understanding of the WW character.
PJ isn’t too concerned with the pressure for the follow up, afterall she is a fan of WW, CB and has a 7 yrs son that’s into CB.
– Besides, with Geoff Johns lending his talents and Gal Gadot reprising her Diana role once again, I’d even betta’ so long as WB executives don’t interfere.
– PJ has said her WW movie inspirations were:
Casablanca, Indiana Jones, and Superman 1978 w/ a little Romancing the Stone honour.
– Btw why o why do moviegoers think the 3rd act was so terrible- the God of War battling a demi god both with magic properties, what were you expecting them wrestle Kentucky style.